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Getting around was slow going Monday in front of the Nebraska Union following 13 inches of snow that fell on Lincoln Saturday night. Classes were cancelled Monday and Tuesday. (Photo by Richard Wright) |
Jim Ballard, manager of news and video services in the Office of Public Relations, leaves the university Oct. 31 after eight years in the Public Relations office. Ballard will become vice president and marketing director for James Arthur Vineyards.
Duties in the office have been temporarily reassigned while a search for a permanent replacement is conducted.
David Ochsner, manager of editorial services, will manage office personnel. Tom Simons will handle media relations and news management with print media and Mary Jane Bruce will handle similar tasks with broadcast media.
University departments who wish to have the office handle news releases should contact Simons at 472-8514.
Highlighting the importance of teaching and learning economics in elementary and secondary schools will be the focus of Economic Education Week in Nebraska Nov. 1-8.
Roger Atwood, president of the Nebraska Council on Economic Education, housed at the College of Business Administration, said the council will be joined by Gov. Ben Nelson; Doug Christensen, commissioner for the Nebraska Department of Education; state Sen. Adyce Bohlke, chair of the legislature's Education Committee; Jack Swartz of the state Chamber of Commerce; state treasurer Dave Heineman; and Maxine Moul, director of the Nebraska Department of Economic Development. The council will coordinate a variety of activities during the week.
The council and its five centers at the Lincoln, Kearney and Omaha campuses of the University of Nebraska and Chadron State and Wayne State colleges will work with teachers to demonstrate methods to infuse economics across the curriculum. A special site on the World Wide Web has been developed that features lessons for teachers to use with their students. Teachers will be able to print copies of the lessons to use in their classrooms as well as learn of other web sites to help teach economics. The lessons are posted at http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu.
In addition, the 32 Nebraska Economics Fellows, classroom teachers who earned UNL master's degrees in economics through a special council program last year, will work with local teachers to emphasize the importance of economic literacy.
For further information on Economics Education Week, contact the Nebraska Council on Economic Education, 339 College of Business Administration, UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-0404, telephone (402) 472-2333 or e-mail vlinke@cbamail.unl.edu.
-Tom Simons
Get a leg up on your Christmas shopping at the Holiday Open House from 3 to 6 p.m. Nov. 5 in the Great Plains Art Collection in 215 Love Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Center for Great Plains Studies, the offerings include wood engravings and offset lithos by famous artists, as well as books, posters, book bags, notecards and more. The sale runs through Dec. 12 and all proceeds will benefit the Great Plains Art Collection.
The University of Nebraska Dairy Store is accepting orders for cheese, meat and honey gift boxes. The products are all made in conjunction with the teaching and research programs in the Department of Food Science and Technology. The products, which include eight cheese varieties, three meat types and Nebraska honey, may be picked up or shipped in attractive gift boxes. Call the Dairy Store's Giftbox Hotline at (402) 472-2951 for more information.
As follow-up to a national benchmarking "Customer Satisfaction Survey" project in which UNL Purchasing received a "Best In Class" designation, Richard Mooney, corresponding editor for the National Association of Educational Buyers, will be conducting on-campus interviews in November.
NAEB intends to build on existing research by identifying particular activities/functions being accomplished, or the particular manner/attitudes in which they are done that leads to a higher level of purchasing-customer satisfaction at UNL. The following dates, times, and locations have been arranged for key departmental personnel who have considerable interaction with Purchasing to meet with Mooney in an informal open discussion session.
Contact Bill Bode (472-3609) or email wbode@unlas400.unl.edu for more information.
A Purchasing Card training session has been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in Room 125A, 1700 Y St. Contact Darla Huff, 472-5050, to register for this session; space is limited.
There are several options available for obtaining Injury and Illness Prevention Plan training. Training is being offered at the Hazardous Materials Training Facility, 3630 East Campus Loop, on Thursdays at 9 a.m. and at 1:30 p.m. Contact Environmental Health & Safety at 472-4925 to register for this training.
Training sessions last about 80 minutes.
EHS will also work with departments to provide training at sites arranged by the department. The department needs to contact EHS to coordinate dates for the training. Once the dates are arranged, the department will be responsible for notifying employees of the training available and scheduling. EHS prefers training sessions to be limited to 50.
Another training alternative available only to employees in "low risk" work settings can be found at the EHS web site. For details on this option, go to http://www.unl.edu/environ/in dex.htm and access the Occupational Safety and Health information.
In November, EHS will begin offering some IIPP classes on City Campus. Dates and times will be announced in the Scarlet and on the web site.
A First Tuesday Discussion from 8 to 9:20 a.m. Nov. 4 in 124 Henzlik will explore ways to use the Web for teaching.
The World Wide Web offers many new methods of delivering instruction andassessing student learning. This session will feature two of UNL's foremost developers of Web-based teaching applications. David Brooks, curriculum and instruction, will demonstrate how the Web may prove to be the ideal way to teach "Keller Plan" courses electronically. John Orr, mathematics, will present a Web-based application he has developed for administering student exams, a key element of successful online course adminstration. Applications and techniques for administering all aspects of Web-based teaching and testing will be presented and discussed.
To register, contact the Teaching and Learning Center, 472-3929 or e-mail teaching@unlinfo.unl.edu.
"Helping Children Cope with Divorce" will be presented at noon on Nov. 3 in the East Union and at noon Nov. 5 in the Nebraska Union. It will be presented by Nancy Myers, Employee Assistance Program director.
While each family member is affected by the stress of divorce, children are often the innocent bystanders. Many children feel confused and betrayed by a parental decision to divorce. In addition, they may experience a profound sense of loss. This seminar will address the effects of divorce on children. Parents or other concerned adults will learn how to recognize and empathize with the feelings, thoughts and emotions children of divorce commonly experience. No fee or pre registration is required.
One team or four individuals are still needed for the Faculty/Staff Bowling League that bowls at the East Union at 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
They still need two individuals and/or teams of four for Women's Bowling League that bowls at 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays.
Contact Ray Koziol at 472-9627 for more information or to sign up.
Campus Recreation has arranged for free skating for NU students and current Campus Recreation members at the Ice Box. The next free skate night is 9 to 11 p.m. Nov. 2. Bring your NU I.D. card. Skates may be rented on site or from Campus Recreation. Sunday rental hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., cost is $1.50/day. Nonmembers and guests are also welcome at a cost of $5. For more information call 472-3467.
The Intramural Turkey Trot will be held Nov. 2 at Oak Lake Park.
This 2.1 mile race is relatively flat and will begin at 1:30 p.m. Bring your NU I.D. card. You can enter on site but be sure to be there at least 15 minutes early. The first place men's, women's, and co-rec teams will receive a frozen turkey in addition to NU Intramural Champion t-shirts. Call 472-3467 for more information.
Franklin-Covey TimeQuest Seminars will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 12 and Dec. 9 at the Nebraska Union.
Only two scheduled seminars remain. After December, classes will be held only as requested by groups or on a semi-annual basis.
Registration fee is $149 ($85 if participants already have a Franklin Planner). This is a substantial savings off of the public seminar rate and is offered to UNL faculty, staff and students only. Register early to ensure that the planner and accessories can be ordered and arrive before the workshop. To register or get more information, call Gina Matkin at 472-4454.
Long a component of the University of Nebraska extension programs, Character Counts! is heading south next month to train more than 60 professionals and volunteers in Brazil.
Character Counts! is a youth education program based on six pillars of character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. Developed 30 years ago in Aspen, Colo., Brazil is only the second country after Russia to adopt the Character Counts! curriculum.
Gary Heusel, Nebraska State 4-H Leader, and Truda Roper, extension educator, will lead the training in Brazil. Sponsored by Partners of the Americas, Heusel and Roper will work with youth services organizations in Brasilia and Piaui, Brazil, as well as the National Movement of Street Children. Partners of the Americas is the western hemisphere's largest private volunteer organization that promotes economic and social development while fostering inter-American cooperation.
Scientists from across the United States will be on campus Nov. 7-8 to participate in a "Frontiers in Plant Science" forum.
The forum aims to discuss and identify the emerging research areas of plant science from the perspective of distinguished plant scientists. Organizers said the forum will be accessible to a wide audience as it will consist of a series of Scientific American-type lectures.
The series of lectures will be Nov. 7 in the auditorium of the Clifford Hardin Nebraska Center for Continuing Education, 33rd and Holdrege streets. They will be presented from 8:30-11:30 a.m. and from 1:45-4:30 p.m. Discussion will follow the morning and afternoon sessions.
Speakers include Anthony Cashmore and Joseph Ecker of the University of Pennsylvania, Xing-Wang Deng of Yale University, Steve Kay of the Scripps Institute, J. Clark Lagarias of the University of California-Davis and Elaine Tobin of UCLA.
The forum concludes Nov. 8 with two 90-minute roundtable discussions beginning at 9 and 10:30 a.m. in Room E228 of the Beadle Center, 19th and Vine streets. The first will be on "Frontiers in Plant Science Research" and the second on "Plant Cell Signaling." The roundtable discussions will involve the visiting scholars and 17 UNL faculty from various departments.
For information, contact Pill-Soon Song, Dow Chemical Professor of Chemistry at UNL, at (402) 472-2749.
With the population of the United States undergoing a dramatic shift in ethnic composition, developmental researchers are increasingly extending their focus beyond white, middle class to include African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Americans.
It is estimated that by the year 2030, traditional minority groups will comprise more than half of school-aged children in the United States, a demographic change that presents a critical challenge for developmental researchers.
An international conference Nov. 7-8 at the university will attempt to identify the problems and possible solutions involved in that growing challenge. "Ethnicity and Development: Integrating Cross-cultural and Developmental Perspectives" will unite some 75 distinguished researchers to explore the conceptual and methodological challenges of research on multi-ethnic populations.
Invited speakers include Ype Poortinga and Fons van de Vijver of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, George Knight of Arizona State University, Andrew Fuligni of New York University and Jean Phinney of California State University-Los Angeles. Sessions will from 1-6:30 p.m. Nov. 7 and from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Wick Alumni Center, 16th and R streets.
The conference is sponsored at UNL by the department of psychology, the Office of International Affairs, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center on Children, Families and the Law, the Gallup Research Center, the Institute for Ethnic Studies, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Family Research and Policy Initiative.
University of Nebraska President L. Dennis Smith will host Central Administration Service Award recipients at 10 a.m. Nov. 10 at Varner Hall. The following individuals will be honored for their years of service with the University:
Filmmaker Ken Burns brings to life the legendary quest of America's most famous explorers in Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery. Narrated by actor Hal Holbrook, the documentary airs in two parts beginning at 8 p.m. Nov. 4 and 5 on the statewide Nebraska ETV Network.
The film has several Nebraska ties. Gary Moulton, professor of history at the university, was a key consultant on the film. Moulton is the editor of a 12-volume set of Lewis and Clark journals, which are being published by University of Nebraska Press.
Also involved in the film were members of The Discovery Corps, an Omaha re-enactment group which set up an authentic campsite for a film shoot. The Joslyn Art Museum and the Nebraska State Historical Society contributed paintings and photographs, while the communities of Gross and Monowi and the Niobrara State Park provided scenic locations.
Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to find an all-water route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led their remarkably diverse crew - dubbed the Corps of Discovery - on a two-and-a-half-year journey. Although there was no Northwest Passage to discover, the explorers made fascinating observations about the land and its inhabitants, which were meticulously recorded in their journals. The enormity of the noble undertaking is recreated by Burns through spectacular scenery, stunning cinematography and extensive archival materials - paintings, maps, drawings, journal entries, letters, government documents and Native American oral history.
Reading from the historic journals are Adam Arkin as the voice of Lewis and Murphy Geyer as Clark. Sam Waterston is the voice of Thomas Jefferson with other voices provided by Matthew Broderick, Gene Jones, Kevin Conway and Tantoo Cardinal. On-screen commentators include author Stephen B. Ambrose and Burns co-writer and co-producer Dayton Duncan.
This week's episode of Outdoor Nebraska features a story on pheasant hunting and a look at Ashfall State Historical Park. The program airs at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6 and repeats Saturday morning at 8 a.m.
Veteran outdoorsman Dick Turpin will provide another outdoor tip in the "Wilderness Workshop" segment, and the "Nature Walk" segment will point out how to distinguish between Nebraska's two types of deer--the white-tail and mule deer. And this week's "Nebraskaland Moment" offers viewers a photographic essay on the birds of Branched Oak Lake near Lincoln.
"Fate of the Plains," an award-winning Nebraska ETV Network documentary that looks at the future of the vast Great Plains region and its people, returns for an encore broadcast at 9 p.m. Nov. 7 on the statewide public television network.
The hour-long program, which received a Silver Apple award this spring from the National Educational Media Network, examines the Great Plains from the perspectives of ranchers, farmers, Native Americans and historians.
"Fate of the Plains" takes viewers down the least traveled roads in America, looking for the future of the Plains - through the eyes of Native Americans who are bringing back the buffalo; cowboys who haven't forgotten the dream of a free and open land; and pioneers inventing new ways to survive on America's last frontier.
Residents of western Nebraska, the prairies of South Dakota and Kansas and the "staked plains" of West Texas all live in the region, and each of them has a story to tell.
Two Nebraska ETV productions received Heartland Regional Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences during a ceremony Sept. 13 in Denver. "Bacteria: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" was named Best Art/Cultural Documentary, while "Love and Loneliness on the Plains" took the honor in the Entertainment category. Only 40 winners were selected from nearly 930 entries in the Heartland region.
"Bacteria: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," produced and directed by Bruce Thiel, takes an unconventional and eye-opening look at the unseen world around us. Though usually associated with disease and death, bacteria are essential for growth and life. This documentary reports on scientific efforts to understand and use bacteria, including ground-breaking research conducted by Tyler Kokjohn, assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences at UNL.
"Love and Loneliness on the Plains," narrated by actress Julie Harris, presents sensitive and faithful adaptations of three stories by Nebraska authors Willa Cather and Mari Sandoz. Produced and directed by Joel Geyer, the program features: "The Sentimentality of William Tavener" by Cather; "Mirage" from Sandoz's Old Jules; and "Winter Memories" from Cather's O! Pioneers.
"Bacteria: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is a production of the Science, Specials and Outreach Unit of UNL Television. "Love and Loneliness on the Plains" was produced by the Cultural Affairs Unit. Both were broadcast on the Nebraska ETV Network, a service of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications.
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